How do you start and where do you start?

After talking to one of my friends and a work colleague about losing weight he had a simple answer, I will send you Christel’s number talk to her.

 I went home talked to my wife and we both decided to give this a try.

We both have medical conditions and the specialist informed us we need to lose weight.

My wife has Rheumatoid Arthritis. ( RA ) and I have Perethial Neuropathy.

After looking at ourselves in the mirror and looking at our size of clothes we had bought and the age we are now, both of us made the decision to phone Christel and make an appointment to see her.

From the first day, we met Christel we felt comfortable, and she made you feel comfortable in a way that is unexplainable.

She puts herself in the shoes of the person she is counselling to help that person deal with his\her negative thoughts and emotions.

She was giving advice, empathizing, and showing that if you are willing to listen to her and her guidance you will see the results at the end. These qualities motivated me and my wife and made us positive and gave us gratitude that goes beyond what is written here.

Goal setting is a helpful way to lose weight.

Christel also emphasized that by setting objectives and creating a clear roadmap for how you will reach your intended target, you can decide how to apply your time and resources to make progress. She was willing to help day or night. Always available to answer questions. Visiting you at home checking up on your progress and all the time she will motivate you with nice and meaningful words, messages and sometimes a phone call.

Without goals, it can be difficult to reach the milestones you want to achieve.

To describe Christel, I will use the short example:

She is SMART.

S = Specific

She was clear and specific with what she wanted us to achieve. The narrower your goal, the more you will understand the steps necessary to achieve it.

M = Measurable

She always gave feedback and evidence on the progress towards our goal? For example, sending our weight every morning to her on WhatsApp.

 A = Achievable

She is set achievable goals. Goals we both can reasonably accomplish within a certain time frame. She kept us motivated and focused.

R = Relevant

She explains, demonstrated, and showed us the setting of goals for ourselves.

T = Time-based

She gave us our goals and end-date that helped both of us and provided motivation and help and how to prioritize.

By meeting Christel and having her in our life’s made a huge difference. We both are more active and we both reached our goal weight, but that is not the end but just the beginning.

While goals can be challenging having a person like Christel helping you will reach your goals in life. But it’s hard work with big rewards. Your motivational messages and kind words helped me and my wife a lot.

Christel from the bottom of our hearts we thank you for everything you have done for us. You have made a big change in our lives. And for that we thank you.

Eben & Thea Ferreira